SBC Plans Set-Top Box with Web Links
From http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1747546,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
SBC is giving new meaning to the term “partnership” by extending the reach of their partner, Yahoo, into everyone’s living rooms.
SBC Communications Inc. is merging home entertainment and digital content through the television set-top box.
The San Antonio, Texas-based telecommunications provider on Monday announced a joint venture with equipment maker 2Wire Inc. to deliver a new home entertainment service and set-top box by the middle of the year. It will be available to customers using both its SBC | Dish Network satellite TV service and its SBC Yahoo DSL service.
The new service will center on a set-top box that integrates satellite television, digital video recording, video on demand and Web content such as Yahoo’s photo-sharing and LaunchCast music services, SBC announced.
It all sounds so sweet, like something SBC’s customers will certainly want. The article continues,
Future plans include providing extended remote access to mobile phones through Cingular Wireless and letting users of SBC’s local phone service view caller ID and call-log information on their TV screens.
Soon, we won’t need a computer at all. We can just sit in front of the tube, phone in hand, with the world at our fingertips.
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